Blog
Technical insights and brewing science from the Bluestone Yeast lab.
Australian beer in July: missing events and the shelf-space fight
A July 2026 Australian beer industry recap covering missing national events, mixed-fermentation closures, administrations and the shelf-space fight.
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Sixty relatives, three generations, and not one photograph
The family half of three weeks through England, Ireland and Spain: three generations, sixty relatives and one very well-kept secret.
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Twelve breweries in twenty one days, and almost none on tap
Three weeks through England, Ireland and Spain showed how little independent beer reaches an ordinary pub or supermarket shelf.
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Bluestone Yeast at the 2026 Australian International Beer Awards
A look at the 2026 AIBA results, the rise of lager and why Consistency of Excellence is one of beer's hardest awards to win.
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Craft beer in Turkey, through Yusuf's eyes
A look at Turkey's small but growing craft beer scene through Yusuf's eyes, from Istanbul bars to bottles brought home for the Bluestone team.
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May at Bluestone: trade days, trophies, and Yusuf in Turkey
A May recap from Bluestone Yeast, covering the Bintani Trade Day, the AIBAs, Yusuf in Turkey and what is next for brewers.
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Autumn Catchup: High Country Hop, the New Website, and AIBAs Week
A quick rundown of what has been happening at Bluestone Yeast: High Country Hop, a year-long website rebuild, refreshed nutrient booster labels, a Merri Mashers night, and the run-up to AIBAs week.
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Beer Pays Up. Gas Gets a Pass.
Why Australian beer drinkers pay more federal tax than offshore gas exporters, what's actually inside the gas lobby's $21.9 billion claim, and why it matters for local manufacturing.
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The Role of Zinc in Brewing Fermentation
Why zinc matters for yeast health, how the boil destroys it, and what cold-side dosing means for fermentation speed and consistency.
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Beer Is a Community. The Harcourt Fires Proved It.
How Australian brewers responded when the Harcourt fires destroyed stored product for more than ninety businesses in Central Victoria.
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Craft Beer Trends for 2026
What defined craft beer in 2025, what surprised us, and our predictions for where Australian brewing heads through 2026.
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2025 at Bluestone Yeast: The Year That Flew
Our 2025 in review: new products, fermentation science, brewery visits and the lessons the year taught us at the Bluestone lab.
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Grainstock 2025: Yeast, Malt, and Mates in Griffith
Notes from Grainstock at Voyager Malt in Griffith, where brewers, distillers and bakers gathered to talk grain and fermentation.
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A Tale of Two Accelerators
September at Bluestone: the close of our university research collaboration, and a hard push on production and operations.
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Balancing the Busy Brew Life: Zinc, Boosters, Breweries, and Community Highlights
A busy month at Bluestone, with brewery visits, community events, new resource enquiries and preparation for the summer brewing season.
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WA Craft Brewers Rising: Notes from the Road, Zinc, and the Fight for Indie Beer
Notes from the road in Western Australia: the WABA meeting in Fremantle, zinc conversations, and the fight for independent beer.
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Mid-Winter, Maximum Momentum: Bluestone Yeast July Update
Winter demand for dark beer strains, progress in the lab, and what the Bluestone Yeast team has been working on through July.
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From Grains to Glasses: How Ancient Wheat , and a Holiday in Turkey , Changed the World (and Your Beer)
A personal look at wheat's ancient origins, its place in brewing, and the people and events connecting grain, yeast and modern beer.
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Autumn Reflections: Juggling Roles, Industry Events & Celebrating Legends
Autumn at Bluestone: covering for a team member abroad, a run of industry events, and celebrating some legends of Australian brewing.
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A Wild Few Months at Bluestone Yeast: Travel, Conferences, Product Launches, and (a Little) Holiday Chaos
Travel, conferences, product launches and holiday chaos. A catch-up on a busy stretch of months at the Bluestone Yeast lab.
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The Role of Zinc in Brewing: A Key to Yeast Health and Beer Quality
Why zinc matters to yeast health, how much of it the boil removes, and what that means for your fermentation performance.
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Brew Your Own Irish Stout with BSY-A016 Dublin Strain
A practical Irish stout recipe covering grist, hops, fermentation and yeast selection for home and professional brewers alike.
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Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Craft Beer Trends for 2025
A review of how our 2024 craft beer predictions held up, and what we expect to shape Australian brewing through 2025 and after.
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2024: A Year of Growth, Innovation, and Gratitude
A look back at Bluestone Yeast's 2024: the events we attended, the milestones we reached, and thanks to the brewers who supported us.
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November Recap: Cheers to Another Month of Brewing Adventures!
Bluestone's November recap, covering professional yeast projects, new homebrew strains, a seasonal promotion and community support.
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New Equipment, Oktoberfest Fun, and Exciting Product Developments
A steam generator installed, kettles connected, Oktoberfest events, and the product developments taking shape at Bluestone.
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Grand finals, brewery visits and October fest
A September of brewery visits, a new Brunswick taproom, grand final weekend and Oktoberfest across Melbourne's beer scene.
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Spring has spring, A new Home for Bluestone yeast.
Settling into the new Bluestone Yeast facility: laying out the space, powering the equipment and finding homes for everything.
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Christmas in July Present for Bluestone Yeast
After four years of trying, Bluestone Yeast has secured a larger facility. The story of a stressful, exciting month of change.
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Winter Beers, GABS and Bluestone Yeast Challenge
Why it is worth booking a chat with a Bluestone yeast expert, plus winter beers, GABS and the Bluestone Yeast Challenge.
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Winter is here!
Winter in Melbourne, the darker beers worth brewing for it, and what has been happening at Bluestone through the middle of the year.
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Bluestone foundation customer Kaiju! Beer wins big at the Melbourne Royal International Beer Awards
Congratulations to Kaiju! Beer, a Bluestone foundation customer, on winning Champion Australian Medium Brewery and Best Pilsner.
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How to Craft the Country's Best Pilsner: A Bluestone Yeast and Kaiju! Beer Love Story
How Kaiju! Beer built an award-winning pilsner, and the part that yeast selection and fermentation played in getting there.
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Eco-Friendly Yeast Practices: A Guide for the Sustainable Brewer
Practical steps Australian brewers can take to reduce the environmental impact of fermentation and day to day yeast management.
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Notice of Update to Credit Policy and Pricing
Notice to partners: an update to Bluestone Yeast's pricing structure and credit policy, and the cost pressures behind it.
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Beer Trend Predictions for 2024
Our predictions for Australian craft beer in 2024, and the styles and shifts we expect brewers to explore in a tough trading year.
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The Divine Origins of Belgian Beer
Where Belgian beer came from, how its brewing tradition developed, and what makes the yeast character of the style so distinctive.
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Holiday Period Liquid Yeast Storage Checklist
A checklist for storing your liquid yeast over the holiday break so it stays viable and is ready to ferment when you return.
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Successful Fermentation When Brewing High-Alcohol Beers
How to ferment high-alcohol beers successfully, when the alcohol itself is what stresses and can eventually stop your yeast.
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How Yeast Adds Flavour to Beer
Yeast contributes far more flavour than most brewers credit it for. What it produces, why, and how to steer it in your next brew.
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Fresh Ideas for Spring Brewing
Beer styles well suited to brewing and drinking through spring, and how brewing with the seasons can stretch your range.
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How temperature affects your beer
How fermentation temperature shapes flavour, aroma and the finished beer, and what to watch when brewing without tight control.
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What is haze and where does it come from?
A Brewcon talk on how hops and yeast interact to create haze in beer, with the supporting presentation available to download.
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BSY Strain of the Month | August
Our Munich strain, a traditional German weizen yeast for the banana-forward Bavarian styles that suit Oktoberfest brewing.
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Providing a Nutritional Diet For Your Yeast
Yeast is a living organism with nutritional needs. What it requires, why the boil strips some of it, and how to put it back.
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See You at Brewcon
Bluestone will be at Brewcon on the Gold Coast at stand 31. Come and talk yeast, and see the newest products we have built.
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Bluestone: Committed to Science and Beer!
Bluestone is sponsoring Science Made Beerable for National Science Week, with three independent breweries brewing experimental beers.
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BSY Strain of the Month | July
Our Stuttgart strain for classic crisp lagers, and why its temperature range suits brewing lager through an Australian winter.
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Choosing Style-Specific Yeast Strains
Why the yeast you choose matters as much as the hops, and how to match a strain to the beer style you are setting out to brew.
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Exploring More Exotic Yeast Strains
A look at some of the less common yeast strains available, and the distinctive beers brewers can make when they reach for them.
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BSY Strain of the Month | June
Our New England strain, the one brewers reach for when making a hazy, and the other beer styles its English heritage suits well.
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How yeast affects the appearance of your beer
How yeast affects the clarity, colour and head of your beer, and what to change if the finished glass does not look right.
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Liquid Yeast vs. Dried Yeast: What's Best for your Brewery?
Liquid or dried yeast for your brewery? The trade-offs to weigh up, and why the right answer can change from brew to brew.
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Yeast-related off flavours - the main offenders
The five most common yeast-related off-flavours in beer, how to recognise each of them, and what to change to avoid them.
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BSY Strain of the Month | May
Our London strain, and the darker, warming English beer styles it suits as the Australian seasons turn away from the beach.
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What makes a great dark beer?
What competition judges look for when they assess stouts and porters, and how to use those criteria to improve your dark beers.
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BSY Strain of the Month | April
Our Pilsen strain, the yeast behind an award-winning Australian pilsner, and what a long maturation time does for the finished beer.
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Choosing an Equivalent Yeast Strain
How to find an equivalent yeast strain when you need to change supplier or substitute, and what to compare before you commit.
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Introducing our new Clean Repitch System
Introducing the Clean Repitch System, built to make harvesting, storing and repitching brewing yeast faster and more hygienic.
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9 yeasty terms and how they'll help you brew better
Nine yeast terms every brewer should know, explained plainly, and how understanding each one helps you brew more consistently.
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BSY Strain of the Month | March
Our San Diego strain, now in the homebrew range, and why it suits the bigger, warming beers brewers turn to as the days shorten.
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Are Kveik Yeasts the Answer to Summer Brewing Blues?
How kveik yeasts can help you keep brewing through the Australian summer, when controlling fermentation temperature gets hard.
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Managing Your Yeast Throughout its Lifecycle
How to manage brewing yeast across its full lifecycle so each generation ferments well, from arrival through to repitching.
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Hazy days ahead!
What actually defines a hazy IPA, why the style took over the shelf space, and where the marketing gets ahead of the brewing.
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Creating a happy home (for your yeast)
Three foundations of healthy fermentation: temperature, oxygen and pitch size, with practical ways to reduce unwanted flavours.
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Bluestone Yeast Now Available For Home Brewers
Bluestone Yeast now offers live liquid yeast in 120ml homebrew packs, covering ten of our most popular commercial brewing strains.
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Seven Steps to Re-Pitch Your Brewing Yeast
A seven-step process for repitching your brewing yeast, covering the handling that keeps each generation healthy and clean.
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Why re-pitch your brewing yeast?
Why breweries repitch liquid yeast, the cost, waste and supply benefits, and the health and hygiene checks needed before reuse.
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A quick look back at how it all began
How Bluestone Yeast started in 2018 and grew through Melbourne's lockdowns, told by the founder looking back on the first four years.
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